Windmill



June 27, g MQQRE WINDMILL Filed Aug. 26, 1952 2. Sheets-Sheet l 3:" llllllllllllllllllllll ..mm|||| INVENTOR I. ZTMvore ATTORNEY June 1933.

MOORE WINDMILL Filed Aug. 26, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 lNvEN'roR Ore QM 2 QJm ORNEY Patented dune i I i v iawm 'r. Moon}? 01 Livia: muons; canironivinifi if i i WY 1 Applicationiiiea August 26, se'riai m. 630.48 6. I v This invention relates to -windmills, my 'wm diyirtm' a tower or building 2 in which 1 principal object being to provide awind-fthe plump .etcqdrivenby the windmill is mill, the oppositely disposed vanes of which housed' "fnba'nd 3 of"relatively largediare so arranged and'connected to each other ameter'surrounds he upper portion 'of the A that those engaged by" the wind, and the shaft concentric" therewith and is securely I wind itself, will hold theopposite ones autoconnected to braced from: the" shaft matically deflected or folded so that they above thehouse by diagonal" "and .radial will then lie edgewise to the wind. In this braces 4t. Y manner the vanesin action may beset so as Extending diametrically ofthe" band at to be disposed at right angles to; the wind evenly spaced intervals thereaboutareverthus giving the-greatest efficiency while at tically spaced pairsfof parallel. shafts 5},

' the same time they offer a minimum of re spaced apart in somewhat elose relation versistanc'e when inovingagainst the'wind. 'ticallyj .Allthe' shafts are journaled' in a The'windmill is particularly intended 'to "hearing block 6 which is formed as the upper;

i be of the horizontal type but it may be made portion of the shaft 1, as well as inbeari'ng to lie in theusual'vertical position, or-with" boxes 7 mounted on the band. Thediiferent a horizontal axis, ifI ClQSlIGd. pairs"ofshafts are of. course spaced vertical- .A further object of the invention'is' tolpro ly fr'oin'each other so that theyinayall'pro duce a s'imple andinexpensiverdevice and jectfthroughthe'block 7 withoutinterfen yet one which will be exceedinglyeifective ence. I i v for the purpose for which it designed. y The shafts 5 andvanes Bfixedonand ex- These objects I accomplisnby means of tending lengthwise thereof form one end tosuch structure and relative arrangement of ward the center and'siini'larvanes 9 iat the parts as will fully appear bya perusal of other ends of the shafts; One pair. of vanes- In the drawings similar characters of refthat they lie inplanesat right angles to those erence indicate corresponding parts in the of the oppositepair, or in such relation that several views; when the vanes 8' are verticallydisposed the Fig. l is a perspective view ofthe preopposite pair 9 are horizontallydisposed inv 3 ferredtype of windmill. I superimposed andv facing relation to each Figs. 2, 3 and't are fragmentary diagramother, and extending rearwardly of the matic end elevations of a vane unit showing shafts 5 relative to the direction 'of rotation the opposite pairs of vanes in various posiof the windmill. Y 1 1 tions relative to' each other. 5 Theverticalvanes are then obviously in I 3 Fig. 5 is a perspective view of'a modified 1 position to be efficiently engaged by the wind, '85

form of windmill. l v i andcannot swing or lean back with the wind Fig. 6 is a fragmentary vertical section on account of the engagement ofthe folded showing the mounting ofthe windmill shaft vanes 9 with each other. Tlie twoshafts 5 4 on its support, suitable for either type of of each pair are connected together-by seg Fig. 7 is a fragmentary vertical section vanes will positively fold and funfold toshowing' a yieldable connection between adgether. I 7 jacent vane-shaft sections, particularly in- As soon as any vane unit, with the rotatended for the type of windmill shown in tion"of' the windmill, turnsso that the corre- 45 Fig. 5. sponding shafts-are moved beyond a posi- Referring nowmore particularly to the tion parallel to the wind plane, the wind becharactersof reference-on the drawings, and I gins to act against the'back faces of the Verparticularly'at present to Figs. 1 toget, the tical vanes, starting to'close or fold them, numeral '1 denotes the vertical axialshaft of while opening the closed vanes; At the same i o the windmill supportedin and' projected uptimethe windalso presses between the closeddoo the following specification and claim; however is fixed on the. respective shafts so 7 windmill. mental gears 10 arranged so that the pairs of 9 0 or folded vanes, forcing them open and also imparting a closing movement to the other vanes. This intermediate or partially opened and closed position of the vanes is shown in Fig. 3. With a furtherrotation of the windmill, the opening and closing of the previously closed'and opened vanes is completed, the previously closed vanes being now in position to be fully engaged by the wind, as shown in Fig. 4. When this vane unit in turn again moves out of the wind the relative position of the opposed pairs of vanes is again reversed.

In Figs. to Z a modified arrangement is shown. In this case each vane unit is single, the vanes 8a and 9a'being mounted on alined shaft sections 5a connected at their adjacent ends a torque spring 11 within the central bearing block 6a. In this arrangement the vanes 8a when vertical depend from the shaft and the corresponding horizontal vanes face away fromthe wind, being held from upward movement by stops 1'2 projecting from the band 366. Counterweights 13 applied to the ends of the shaft sections act to balance the vanes so that they normally lie in positions at right angles and parallel to a wind- 7 plane respectively so that they are always in ,position to take advantage of the slightest breeze.

The springs 11 between the shaft sections prevent possible breaking or warping of the vanes in a high wind, since while the springs are sufficiently strongto resistordinary wind pressures and hold the vanes vertical, they yield under excessive pressure and permit the vertical vanes to flatten out backward, or

with the wind. It may here be notedthatthis 1 same arrangement may be used in connection A. hood 16 is secured to the shaft 7 From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that I have produced such a device as substantially fulfills the objects of the invention as :set forth herein. a

While this specificationsets forth in detail the presentand preferred construction of the device, still in practice such deviations from suchdetail .may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit of the invention, asdefined by the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and useful and-desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A windmill including an axial support, longitudinally alined and-separate shaftsec tions projecting across the same, said sections terminating jadj acent :each other within the support, vanes on the outer ends, of the shaftsections, .and a torque spring connecting c the shaft sections attheir adjacent ends'an arranged to cause the vanes to normally lie at ,right angles to each other and yieldably resist turning of the shaft sections relative to eachother inonedirection.

In testimony whereof I afiix-mysignature.

IRWIN T. Moons. 

